---Filter--- Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate: scrapped Port Visit Refit Deployment Aircraft 1972-nov-3 Laid down BAE Systems (Vickers) at VSEL Barrow, Yard No 1091.1974-feb-22 Launched completed at Swan Hunter (Hebburn ) from Feb 1976. 1979-aug Aircraft assigned 702 Sq Lynx HAS.2 XZ255 as Cardiff Flt / 335-CF, until c Dec 1981 1979-sep-24 Commissioned 1981-aug-29 Port Visit HMD Devonport Navy Days 1981 Ship open to visitors at Plymouth Navy Days 19811982-apr-20 Deployment Operation Corporate Left Mombasa for South Atlantic to join Bristol Group, leaving theatre on 7 Jul 1982 after being relieved by HMS Birmingham . 1982-jun-6 Aircraft Pleasant Peak Gazelle XX377 incident1988 Refit refit completed Mar 1989 1990-sep Deployment Persian Gulf Task Group 321.1 Armilla Patrol Deployed to reinforce Armilla Patrol after Kuwaiti annexation by Iraq. Joined by HMS Gloucester and HMS Brazen as part of TG 321.1, relieving HMS Battleaxe, HMS Jupiter and HMS York.1990-sep Aircraft assigned 815 Sq 214 Flt Lynx HAS.3 XZ230 as /335 1994-oct Deployment Deployment to Arabian Gulf with HMS Cornwall , as part of US Operation Vigilant Warrior in support of Kuwait. 2000 Deployment to Belize for disaster relief operations following Hurricane Keith 2003-feb Deployment Armilla Patrol to Persian Gulf for a 6 month Armilla Patrol deployment, returned in Aug 2003. 2004-apr Deployment South Atlantic Atlantic Patrol Task (South) Departed HMNB Portsmouth for 6 month West Africa and APT(S). Operated around Falkland Islands between Jul 2004 and Sep 2004, relieving HMS Glasgow and herself relieved by HMS Iron Duke in Sep. Returned to UK on 22 Oct.2004-may-8 Port Visit Tema visited Tema, Ghana until 11 May, during APT(S) deployment2005-jun-24 Port Visit Fleet Review: Trafalgar 200 at Trafalgar 200, with 815 NAS Cardiff Flt/335 Lynx embarked. 2005-jul-14 Decommissioned paid off at HMNB Portsmouth 2006-jul Fareham Creek by Jul 2006 was laid up in Fareham Creek2008-nov Fate: scrapped Aliaga Shipbreakers to Turkey for scrapping